Posted on 09/18/2016 11:54:35 AM PDT by Morgana
Huffington Post film reviewer Laura Goldman generally liked the new romantic comedy “Bridget Jone’s Baby,” but she had one problem: It doesn’t promote abortion.
Goldman’s movie review read more like an advocacy piece for abortion. She argued that the comedy, the third in the Bridget Jones series, should have mentioned abortion because the pregnant 40-something main character would have considered it in real life.
She wrote:
“Bridget Jones’s Baby,” deftly written, generates a belly laugh a minute. The one flaw of the movie is that it overdoses on cuteness instead of taking the braver path of discussing birth control and abortion on screen. Yes, the plot of the movie required that Bridget get pregnant, yet she could have discussed or planned more responsible contraception than 10-year-old vegan condoms found in the bottom of her bag. Or in a novel twist, the horny males could have tried and failed to take responsibility for preventing pregnancy. It certainly would have been in character for the uptight Mr. Darcy.
There’s one crucial word missing from the Bridget Jones script-abortion. It is absolutely inconceivable that Bridget, a single 43-year-old pregnant woman, never considers terminating her pregnancy even if she eventually rejected it. The screenwriters of the film should have had her discuss it with her doctor or could have opted for the less in your face route of having Bridget write about it in her diary, which is now an iPad. It is 2016 not 1950. It is okay for a 43-year-old single woman to fear she can’t handle a baby on her own and consider terminating her pregnancy.
Goldman’s piece fit in with abortion activists’ on-going campaign to demand societal acceptance of abortion. The entertainment industry is just one way that they are trying to push their messaging, and they get upset when it doesn’t toe the line. For example, abortion activists were quick to criticize popular comedy actress and writer Mindy Kaling, a Planned Parenthood supporter, in 2014 when she said the topic of abortion would be “demeaning” for her half-hour sitcom. Under pressure from the pro-abortion lobby, she later apologized.
Abortion activists want the entertainment industry to push their pro-abortion messaging even more than it already does. In the past few years, popular TV shows and movies, including several billed as comedies, have touted the pro-abortion agenda.
Last November, the ABC show “Scandal” shocked many viewers when it glorified a main character’s abortion. The show had one of the main characters smile as she aborted her unborn baby, while “Silent Night” played in the background. Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups praised the show for being “groundbreaking,” “brave” and “awesome.” And the Huffington Post lauded the show for portraying an abortion as “no big deal.”
Abortion is a big deal for most women and always for their unborn babies. Unborn babies die horrible, painful deaths in abortion procedures every day, and millions of women suffer from years of pain and regret afterward. But these heart-wrenching stories are the ones that never get told in the media.
Very good for the movie writers, actors, and producers.
It’s a real shame that murder isn’t promoted more in film. These people are evil.
That woman is wrong that a 43-year-old single woman would absolutely consider abortion. In my experience women in that age range who haven’t married are looking for the kids, even if the husband never came along. I have friends who would give anything to be married and have families. When it becomes pretty clear that they won’t ever be walking down the aisle, they look to adopt. My particular friends don’t sleep around, but if they did, and became pregnant, they’d be thrilled. Abortion would be the furthest things from their minds.
I have a good friend who just got foster kids, in fact, and is hoping it will lead to adoption. She is an only child and knows that when her parents die, her family ends. She would have preferred the traditional family route, but she is kind of a homebody and not exactly hot stuff, so she doesn’t really have the self-confidence to get out there and “land a man.” But that doesn’t mean she can’t provide a good, loving and stable home to kids who need it. She fits the profile of a woman who would NOT consider abortion.
promote?
not enough to just ask for a mention?
What’s to promote? The loss of life? A life of regret?
It’s a warning about temptation:
You’ve really been grand
(I thrill when you touch my hand)
But don’t you see?
(How can you do this thing to me?)
There’s bound to be talk tomorrow
(Think of my lifelong sorrow)
At least there will be plenty implied
(If you got pnuemonia and died)
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I was a pregnant 40 something (43) and NEVER considered abortion for a minute. These people are nuts
Oh, I can hardly wait to see a comedy about “a single 43-year-old pregnant woman”. That sounds just too funny.
Good grief! What has our culture become?
You make sense. It’s rare for a 43-year-old woman to get pregnant, especially if it’s her first pregnancy. I think most women that age would figure it was their very last chance to have a baby and would be less likely to abort.
Since FR doesn't have a "like" button for comments, let me just say LIKE
The church ladies are my biggest problem with FR.
Libs eating libs.
The madness is self consuming. Hopefully thy destroy each other before screwing up all the rest of us.
Nothing revs up a romantic baby comedy than bringing up abortion.
How many times have libs told us, It’s just a movie?
See they know entertainment is merely a propaganda vehicle.
Wow. I was not expecting this in a response :)
Thanks.
You are part of the problem.
And I intend to stay that way!! God Bless America!! Where we dont have to close our eyes to wrong or to the self righteous pompous holier-than-thous!! :)
You enjoying the show, Al Baby? :) funny picture!
If a 43 year old stays pregnant for more than 3 months it is A MIRACLE. These days there is very low egg quality after the age of 41. At 40 you have a 50% chance of giving birth if pregnant, at 42 it is maybe 30% and at 43 closer to 10%. At 45 it might be 1%. Egg quality is very poor so the pregnancies will end in early miscarriages.
To this day I have not figured out why women worship abortion. How were we convinced there was some “right to choose” murder??? When I was a little girl I read this everywhere and kind of believed it. Until I applied actual thought and heart to the subject. We were 100% hoodwinked.
There is no reason to worship available abortion. What could the reason be, in any logic? The RIGHT of men to have access to vaginal sex any time they want?? How is that feminism? The RIGHT to let men off the hook for fatherhood?? I’m sorry, I’m not getting it. Murder out of convenience?
They aren’t pompous; you are. Every culture must have standards. Yours just happen to be low and ultimately not up to the task of sustaining an advanced, healthy civilization.
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